“Alpha Female” by Wild Beasts

For the recently debuted music video of Wild Beasts’ latest single “Alpha Female,” taken from the UK band’s Boy King album, director Sasha Rainbow traveled to Bangalore, India to capture the city’s emerging female skateboardinging scene. “In places like Afghanistan, Cambodia, and India, skating has not been solidified as a male sport and therefore has had a massive cultural impact, teaching values about self-empowerment through skateboarding,” Rainbow described in a statement about the video. “Because of the current political climate in the West and attitudes of intolerance, and sexism across the world, I wanted to create a video that celebrates everyone who takes the risk to be themselves.”

Challenging the male chauvinism that has long plagued India, the music video follows girls from Holystoked, a well-known Indian skateboarding collective; members of Girl Skate India, a platform that aims to cultivate more local skaters of both genders; and Atita Verghese, India’s first-ever professional female skater as they shred through city traffic and the backstreets of Bangalore. Check out the video above.